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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 2 0 Browse Search
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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XVII (search)
recent movements of the German army, had been applied many similar principles of military science. The French army under Marshal Bazaine having retired into the fortifications of Metz, that stronghold was speedily invested by Prince Frederick Charles. Meantime the Third Army, under the Crown Prince of Prussia-which, after haying fought and won the battle of Worth, had been observing the army of Marshal MacMahon during and after the battle of Gravelotte--was moving toward Paris by way of Nancy, in conjunction with an army called the Fourth, which had been organized from the troops previously engaged around Metz, and on the 22d was directed toward Bar-le-Duc under the command of the Crown Prince of Saxony. In consequence of these operations the King decided to move to Commercy, which place we reached by carriage, traveling on a broad macadamized road lined on both sides with poplar-trees, and our course leading through a most beautiful country thickly dotted with prosperous-lookin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Henry, Pierre Francois 1759-1833 (search)
Henry, Pierre Francois 1759-1833 Author; born in Nancy, France, May 28, 1759; became a lawyer, and later went on the stage, but did not succeed. He translated into the French Marshall's Life of Washington, and was the author of Description of North America. He died in Paris, Aug. 12, 1833.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ubsequently confirmed by the Oxford University; in 1240 he took the vows of a Franciscan at Oxford. His talents and originality caused him to be suspected by his brethren, and he was imprisoned in 1268, and closely confined for ten years. He returned to Oxford, and died in 1292. The claim to the invention of spectacles, asserted in behalf of Alexander de Spina, a monk of Pisa, who died in 1313, is believed to be anticipated by this dateof Bacon's. Scribe with Spec-tacles (tapestry of Nancy, France). Fig. 5356 is from the tapestry of Nancy, of the latter part of the fifteenth century, and represents a scribe with spectacles on nose, and with all his apparatus of writing,—pen, penknife portable case, book, and paper. Chaucer and Lydgate refer to spectacles. John Baret, of Bury St. Edmunds, left by will, in 1463, to one of the monks, his ivory tablets and a pair of silver-gilt spectacles. I this morning did buy me a pair of green spectacles, to see whether they would help